Strip-serving device.



F. S. ANABLE.

STRIP SERVING DEVICE.

APPLICATION HLED JUNE 23. 1915.

Patented Sept. 24, 1918.

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FREDERICK S. ANABLE, OF BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO NATIONAL BINDING MACHINE COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

STRIP-SERVING DEVICE.

Patented Sept. 24,1918.

Original application filed August 19, 1908, Serial No. 449,320. Dividedand this application filed J'une 23,

- 1915. Serial No. 35,932.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK S. ANABLE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brookline, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Strip-Serving Devices, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to devices or apparatus for supplying strips of paper or the like employed for wrapping or binding packages, or for use as labels of any desired length, and has particular reference to that type of apparatus employing a support for a coil of paper strip previously gummed and then dried, and having provisions for moistening the gum upon the strip as the latter is drawn from its coil. It is apparent that an ungummed strip of paper or the like may be employed, in which case the moistening device for the strip, suitably positioned with respect thereto, would contam an adhesive instead of water.

This application is a division of my copending application for strip serving device, Serial No. 449,320, filed August 19, 1908, Patent No. 1,147,290, dated July 20, 1915.

In order that the principle of the invention may be clearly understood, I have disclosed certain embodiments thereof in the accompanying drawing, wherein Figure 1 represents in side elevation a strip serving device embodying certain features of my invention;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of a portion of the device shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of another form of my invention; and

Fig. 4 is a plan view of a portion thereof.

The strip support is represented at 1, it being of any suitable construction and be ing preferably a case wherein a roll of paper may be suitably supported and tensioned. Herein it is represented as mounted upon the base 2. Suitably secured to the base is a reservoir 3 adapted to receive a moistener herein represented as a rotary moistener 4 having a preferably absorbent surface 5. I employ a scraper to engage said surface and to remove excess moisture. I have herein for the purpose represented a holder 6 formed of a pair of strips of suitable fieXible metal spaced at their rear ends, as at 7 to grasp the upper edge of the rear wall v8 of the reservoir 3, and suitably spaced at the forward ends, as at 9, to grasp a rubber or other strip 10 to contact with the surface of the moistener. Inasmuch as metallic strips are flexible, the scraper may be readily bent to any desired angle, thereby suitably to engage the surface of the moistener.

The strip may be guided into severing relation to the moistener in any suitable manner, as, for example, by av pair of rolls 11 supported in the rear of the moistener upon a suitable bracket 12. Any suitable severing device may be employed and positioned at any suitable point. I have herein shown the front wall of the reservoir 3 as provided with a serrated severing blade13, into severing relation with which the strip may be deflected after a sutficient length thereof has been drawn from thestrip roll support.

It is obvious that the device herein shown for removing excess moisture may be employed with various types of moisteners, but it is peculiarly adapted for use in. connection with a rotary moistener.

In Figs. 3 and 4, I have represented another form of my invention, wherein is shown a strip support 1, a base 2, and, a reservoir 14 having supported upon the up per edge of its rear wall, as at 15, a spring shield 16 which overhangs the rear portion of the nroistener and acts, after the severing operation, to elevate the strip from the moistener. The said shield is sufliciently flexible to permit the ready contact of the strip with the moistener when the strip is drawn from the support. The said spring shield is preferably formed of a leaf spring of substantially the entire width of the moistener, which obviously may be of any suitable type.

The strip may be guided to the moistener in any suitable manner, as, for example, by a pair of rolls 17 mounted in the rear of the moistener upon a suitable bracket 18. Any suitable severing device may be employed, and may be located at any suitable point. I have herein represented for that purpose a serrated severing blade 19 mounted upon the front wall of the reservoir 14.

That form of my invention shown in Figs. 1 and 2 is peculiarly serviceable where it is intended to operate the device with extreme rapidity,-that is, with but very slight intervals between successive uses thereof. In such case, the strip may be permitted to rest in actual contact with the only at such intervals of time as would result in the adherence of the gummed strip to the surface of the moistener. The location and arrangement of the guiding means 17 and the shielding means 16 with respect to the moistener are such that by a direct forward pull of the strip in a horizontal direction, the strip is drawn into moistening relation with the surface of the moistener, the spring 16 yielding suliiciently for this purpose.

Thus, a minimum arm or hand movement may be employed in the use of this form of my invention.

Having thus described one illustrative embodiment of my invention, I desire it to be understood that although specific terms are employed, they are used in a generic and descriptive sense and not for purposes of limitation, the scope of the invention being set forth in the following claims.

Claims:

1. A strip serving device comprising a neraeeo strip support, moistening means including a tank or reservoir, and a scraper therefor having a holder provided with spaced members adapted to fit upon an edge of a wall of the tank or reservoir.

2. A strip serving device comprising a strip support, strip severing means, a tank or reservoir having moistening means, and a scraper for said moistening means having spaced members adapted to fit upon an edge of a wall of said tank or reservoir.

A strip serving device comprising a strip support, a tank or reservoir, a movable moistener mounted therein, a severing blade, and a scraper having a holder provided with spaced members adapted to lit upon the upper edge of a wall of the tank or reservoir.

4:. A strip serving device comprising astrip support, a tank or reservoir. a movable inoistener mounted therein, a severing blade, a scraper for the moistener, and a holder therefor having spaced members to receive the scraper and spaced members to fit over an upper edge of a wall of the tank or reservoir.

5. A. strip serving device comprising a strip support, a tank or reservoir, a movable moistener mounted therein, a severing blade, a scraper for the moistener, and a holder therefor having spaced members to receive the scraper and spaced members to fit over an upper edge of a wall of the tank or reservoir, said holder being bendable to permit adjustment of the scraper.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FREDERICK S. ANABLE.

Witnesses ROBERT H. KAMMLER, F. IRENE CHANDLER.

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